Timeline for How do I make sure a GPU will support most games?
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| Dec 16, 2013 at 9:57 | answer | added | StormShadow | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 13:15 | comment | added | StormShadow | Oh really? I will do that then. Thanks! | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 13:14 | comment | added | Beef | @StormShadow I dont think you will need the receipt, if you call the manufacturer and give them the serial number they should be able to tell you if you can still get it replaced | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 13:13 | comment | added | StormShadow | @Beef: Hmmm. That DOES sound eerily similar to my issue. It's been almost a year for me; I'll see if I still have the receipt hanging around. I just posted on nVidia's boards too. Thanks for all your input - and to everybody else as well. We've managed to narrow it down to the GPU or the power supply. | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 12:29 | comment | added | Beef | @StormShadow the issues I was having were my game would usually either go black and then come back saying the graphics driver has failed but recovered or it would just freeze right up, so I called Nvidia and went through all their trouble shooting steps and it still continued so they figured it was hardware, my driver was failing probably 2-3 times daily | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 3:59 | comment | added | StormShadow | @Beef: how did you find out that it was a hardware issue? In my case, all I know is that the video portions of the game play fine, but as soon as it switches to gameplay, the screen freezes, flickers black, and/or crashes in a very dirty way, usually freezing my whole system and often (but not always) necessitating a hard reboot. | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 12:29 | comment | added | Beef | Yeah, it was under warranty so I got it replaced for free. | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 2:32 | comment | added | StormShadow | @Beef: I'm sorry - you replaced your 470 with another 470? | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 22:21 | comment | added | Ryre | You could try using BurnInTest to see if it reveals any hardware errors: passmark.com/products/bit.htm | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 17:09 | comment | added | Beef | could it be an issue of the motherboard not supporting the right chipset, because I built my own computer using a Nvidia GTX 470, and for the first bit my gpu driver kept failing but it was a hardware issue, since I got my gpu replace my 470 has worked flawlessly with any games Ive played such as (dirt 3, deadspace 2, portal 1/2, wow, SC2, borderlands, witcher 2 and more) but ive never had a problem | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 8:43 | vote | accept | StormShadow | ||
| Oct 5, 2011 at 7:41 | answer | added | DMA57361 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 4:35 | history | edited | StormShadow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2011 at 3:01 | history | edited | Nick T | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2011 at 1:34 | answer | added | user2974 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 1:17 | comment | added | Thrillho | Right now this question is impossible to answer. No information on the card purchased previously and no information on the motherboard being used to properly recommend a card. Question might also be too localized. | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 0:38 | comment | added | Jeff Mercado | Generally, any card within two generations of the current generation should last for the next two generations or so. By that I mean you could play just about any game with reasonable performance. Though don't expect to be able to play at the highest settings when you're two generations behind. | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 0:26 | history | asked | StormShadow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |